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BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SilkWords LLC today celebrates the launch of a web site that offers a first-of-its-kind reading experience for women's fiction (www.silkwords.com).
The site blurs the line between fiction and casual gaming by offering high quality, interactive romance that allows individual readers to choose how the story proceeds. Readers can also experience the story in different ways by returning to choice points and following different paths.
SilkWords was founded by wife-and-husband team Keri and Boyd Multerer. Boyd, who works as development director for Microsoft Xbox, is no stranger to the gaming industry.
"As a working mom of three young children," Keri said, "I believe there's a potentially huge market for a site that offers high quality women's fiction that can be consumed quickly. And the marriage of two very popular forms of entertainment-romance and gaming-was a no-brainer for us."
The site offers an upscale experience-original artwork, plus paid subscriptions instead of advertisements-and a continually expanding collection of multichoice stories varying in length, romance subgenre, heat level, and sexual orientation of protagonist.
Featured at launch are new stories from award-winning indie romance author Lisa Scott (also with HarperCollins and Bell Bridge Books), paranormal and fantasy author Skyler White (Berkley, Tor/Macmillan), award-winning historical author Kim Taylor Blakemore (Penguin, HarperCollins), and sex-journalist-turned-erotica author Leigh Cowart.
SilkWords' acquiring editor is science fiction romance author Sharon Lynn Fisher (Tor/Macmillan), a Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2013 RITA finalist and three-time RWA Golden Heart finalist.
"Our goal is to offer something for everyone, from erotic to sweet, historical to sci-fi," Fisher said. "It's such a fun format for authors to play around with. Have you ever read a romance and wondered what would happen if the heroine made a different choice? Picked a different guy? Waited longer to kiss him? Our readers get to find out."
Today's launch is phase 1 of a larger SilkWords vision.
"The beautiful thing about SilkWords is there's a ton of room for experimentation," Boyd said. "Different forms of storytelling, interaction with the authors, and moving the medium forward. It's stories first, gaming second, with a lot the two sides can learn from each other."
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According to a study commissioned by Romance Writers of America, the nonprofit trade association for the romance industry, romance novels generate $1.4 billion every year, with 44 percent of sales in e-book format and the majority of buyers falling between the ages of 30 and 54 (http://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=582). The digital book market has made romance even more popular by offering an anonymous experience (Good E-Reader, http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/e-readers-stimulating-the-sales-of-erotica-ebooks).
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The week after Christmas is when Americans "give back."
Give back gifts they don't want.
Returns are expected to jump 37 percent this holiday to $63 billion, according to Liquidity Services, a company which manages and resells returned merchandise for top retailers like Wal-Mart.
"Returns and overstock flows will be at record levels once again," said Cayce Roy, who heads the asset recovery division for Liquidity Services.
He said the number of returns continues to grow, especially as online shopping increases. Products bought over the Internet are more likely to be the wrong size, fit, or look and work different than expected.
(Read More: Did the Grinch Steal the Holiday Shopping Season?)
At the same time, retailers are making it easier for customers to return or exchange merchandise.
"The retailers want to see an exchange, but more and more, consumers are demanding returns," Roy said.
Even if stores lose the sale through a straight return, he said making returns easy helps the overall customer experience and may build brand loyalty.
(Read More: US Holiday Retail Sales Growth Weakest Since 2008.)
According to Liquidity Services, consumer electronics are the most returned items—one in five such gifts will be taken back this year. Federal Express, however, said apparel is the top returned item, with a whopping 45 percent return rate. FedEx said a survey of consumers found the "worst gift givers" are spouses/partners, as nearly one in four presents from significant others is taken back. Coming in second place is "Mom"—who fails to please 20 percent of the time.
What happens to those returned items? For retailers who use Liquidity Services, much of the merchandise will be resold on sites like Secondipity.com. Some, however, won't be resold in the U.S.
"We have a broad range of apparel retailers, and for them it's very important that we protect the brand," Roy said. "In some cases we export them to other places in the world."
(Read More: Retailers' Run May Be Over: Analyst)
Retailers may weather the season of giving back and even boost revenues after Christmas, but it's not so great for their employees.
"So many returns and since it's not Christmas, people are really mean again," tweeted @EliEgger4.
"Returns KILL commissions," added @TaraDublinRocks.
They are also not a typical practice everywhere.
"It's really a uniquely American cultural experience," Roy said of the mad dash to return gifts. "In many countries, you just don't return goods."
That could be good news for retail workers willing to move overseas, like @Meggyboobear, who tweeted, "If someone returns one more thing I might lose it."
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text: Tim White Archives Email Author Playing in the snow Buckeye Farm Beat Some of us are good with equipment and some of us should stick to writing. Published on: February 14, 2010 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Blog RSS Permalink Print With six or seven inches of snow on the ground and more falling I decided this week it was time to get the blade on the tractor and clear the quarter mile lane that leads to our farm house. I realized this when I came home from work in the dark. The wheel tracks the car had left in the morning were barely visible, and the drifts were getting high enough that the car was bottoming out as I drove up the hill. Most winters I can get by without plowing, which is good, because the less time I spend cussing at a three-point hitch the better. Actually the muttering started even before I got to the struggle of attaching the blade. For starters the snow from about 1,200 square feet of roof barn had shifted and was piled 3 feet deep in front of the sliding barn doors. So I had to do some shoveling before I could even open the doors to get tractor out. And it's not like I could just shovel out in front of the one door that slides to the right. That's' only half enough room for the tractor to come out. I had to dig out the other three doors and to push them to the left. Fortunately the tractor was facing out so I could use the front end loader to scoop out the snow once I got the doors open. Unfortunately the brush hog was on the back end of the tractor so I had to drive the machine out and maneuver it back in to a corner of the barn where I could detach the mower and keep it out the way. Of course that's a pretty dark corner of the barn, so I couldn't really see what I was doing. No I didn't back into the patio furniture my wife has stored back there, but I came close. My Montana tractor has detachable sway bars which are supposed to make removing the hitch bars easier, but that means crawling under the hitch and pulling pins, and not losing the pins on the barn floor while you hold a flash light with your teeth. Ultimately, you need a sledge hammer to handle this delicate operation. The same goes for nudging the pins back into position. Brute force is a great tension reliever. Then there is detaching the power take off drive shaft. Push the little pin in and pull and kind of twist and pull and push the pin in harder and pull and twist and give a fierce yank and when it suddenly comes off, brace yourself as you fall backwards onto the mower. Of course I had to take the tractor outside again so I could back up into an area where I could attach the blade, which I had to drag from another corner of the barn where it was stored to keep it out of the way. On the way the sliding door got a little bump from the loader bucket. Still no damage. However, I forgot I had taken the category 2 pins off the blade and put them on the roto-tiller last fall. The tiller is back in that dark corner of the barn somewhere. Miraculously, I finally got the blade on the tractor and headed out into the wintry night. The tractor's headlights were not much help because the loader prevented them from lighting up more than the back of the bucket. When I raise the loader and there was plenty of light out front, but the bucket was directly in the line of vision. Never mind, I could still see the wheel tracks and the blade was rolling snow off to the side making a clean white path. Compared to putting the blade on the tractor, the plowing was simple. I shifted into second gear and charged ahead. At the bottom of the drive I faced the tough decision of where to put the snow the blade had scraped up behind me. Once in a winter long ago, I had gotten a little greedy in trying to drag the pile of snow off toward the side and managed to stick my Deutz tractor in the ditch. No way I was going to get close to that ditch this year. But just how far could I get with that front tire before it was too much? Yep. I inched my way over there and then shifted into reverse and started spinning. Simple. Just brake that right rear wheel. Still spinning. Rock it forward a little. In deeper. Gun it backwards. Still spinning. Brake the left wheel. Inch it forward again. Still spinning. Back and forth. In pretty deep now. Maybe I can just drive it right out of the ditch? Gun it. OK. I got half the drive plowed that night. The next morning my very good friend David McCandlish came with a chain and pulled the tractor out of the ditch. I got the other half plowed that day. I've managed to scrape the drive a couple of more times without incident since then and with another 4 to 6 inches on the way tonight, I'm figure I am way ahead of the game. At least I have the blade on the tractor. I'll probably put off putting the mower back on until August.


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Two former classmates come face to face tomorrow as Chievo and Fiorentina meet at the Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi.
Chievo boss Eugenio Corini and Fiorentina's Vincenzo Montella both earned their coaching badges on the same course, and their teacher Renzo Ulivieri knew they were both destined for stardom.
``You could see back then that they were both in love with football,'' he said. ``All you had to do was hear them talk to understand their competence and their passion.
``Montella was funny and his contributions were a mixture of knowledge and humour - everybody would be laughing, but having said that, Montella has a good temperament and is well educated.
``What surprised me about him is that, when he was asked to coach Roma, he did not change a bit, neither with me nor with his colleagues.
``Corini, on the other hand, was already a coach when he was a player. Us coaches would do whatever we could to have him in our team. You could rely on him with your eyes shut.''
Montella is no stranger to the compliments, but he says he cannot buy much with them.
``It is certainly nice to receive such esteem, but we still have to demonstrate we are worthy of it on the field of play,'' he said.
``We play to win. A win would mean a lot to us.''
Chievo could be without their star striker Sergio Pellissier, who had a minute kidney stone problem recently and has been forced to miss several training sessions.


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Actor Rob Lowe didn't just bring his boyish good looks and Emmy-winning star power to the NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation" when he joined the ensemble cast two years ago.
He also brought some Hoosier sentimentality.
Though raised in Ohio after his parents divorced, Lowe, 48, still claims connection to Indiana through his father, Charles "Chuck" Lowe, who grew up in Anderson; his grandparents who for many years lived in Madison County, and his great-great-grandfather who fought as an Indiana volunteer for the Union Army in the Civil War.
"My roots are in Indiana," said Lowe, during a break in filming on location at an Indiana landmark: the 1902-built St. Elmo's Steak House in downtown Indianapolis.
Lowe and the male cast members from the popular sitcom set in the fictional town of Pawnee, Ind., spent Monday shooting at least two scenes for an episode to air in January. One was at St. Elmo's, a classic steakhouse, and the other was Lucas Oil Stadium, home to his favorite NFL team, the Indianapolis Colts.
The night before the shoot, Lowe sent out a tweet saying he was dining in Indy, adding: "Love this place." And he's convinced that fans of the show have come to love Indiana — or at least a version of it portrayed by the sometimes clueless but always earnest characters that populate Pawnee.
"How can you not love everybody in Pawnee," said Lowe, who plays the eagerly enthusiastic Pawnee city manager on the show. "How can you not root for everybody in Pawnee?"
The show pokes fun at government bureaucracy, while retaining both humor and affection for the workers who occupy it, which is why Lowe likes the show so much. The characters, he said, are appealing because they see and embrace what he called the "drama and heroism" of finding the good in government and making it work.
"That's great fodder for entertainment," said Lowe, who won an Emmy for his role on TV's "West Wing," playing an earnest White House staff member who also found the good in government and made it work.
There are other Hoosier connections to the show: Co-creator Mike Schur's mother was born in Indiana and his wife went to school at the University of Notre Dame. Actor Jim O'Heir, who plays the often-befuddled Jerry Gergich, grew up in a small town that straddled the Illinois-Indiana border and he worked as a disc jockey at a radio station in the small town of Rensselaer, where he read the hog reports every morning. "I'm proud of that," O'Heir said. "I don't need to be known as a big-city boy."
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Study finds Indiana residents paying more in taxes
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A national study says Indiana residents have been paying a growing percentage of their income on state and local taxes.
Judge: Indiana must recognize gay couple's marriage
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the state must recognize a gay couple's out-of-state marriage before one of the women, who has cancer, dies.
State school board members say teacher ratings unfair
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some Indiana State Board of Education officials say teacher evaluation results that show only 2 percent of educators need improvement are unfair to students and parents.
Bennett campaigning ethics hearing further delayed
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Groups hope to revive outer beltway
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Indiana seed commissioner seeks federal hemp OK
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana's seed commissioner has asked the federal government for permission to allow Hoosier farmers to begin growing industrial hemp under new state regulations.
Company fined $50K in Indiana State Fair collapse
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The owner of parts of a stage that collapsed during a powerful storm at the Indiana State Fair in 2011, an accident that killed seven people, will pay a $50,000 fine for safety violations, the state said today.
Indiana court to hear former regulator's case
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Ethics panel could meet soon on Indiana lawmaker
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Indiana withdrawing from Common Core standards
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Court gives Duke Energy go-ahead for rate increase
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Court of Appeals has given Duke Energy the green light to raise electricity rates to pay for its $3.5 billion Edwardsport coal-gasification power plant.
Indiana unemployment rate drops to 6.4 percent
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's unemployment rate has dropped to 6.4 percent, continuing its big decline over the past year.
2 new suits target Indiana's gay marriage ban
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two new federal lawsuits are taking aim at Indiana's same-sex marriage ban, boosting to four the number of legal challenges to the law filed in a week.
Pence signs military relief fund changes into law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence has signed into law a measure allowing more of Indiana's veterans and their families access to a fund that helps them pay for food, housing and other expenses.
New lawsuit challenges Indiana gay marriage ban
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's ban on same-sex marriages faces a new challenge in a lawsuit filed by a national gay rights group.
Nature trust expands Owen-Putnam State Forest
POLAND, Ind. (AP) — State officials say funding from the Bicentennial Nature Trust has helped the Indiana Department of Natural Resources expand a central Indiana state forest by 84 acres.
Indiana court says child welfare agency went too far
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court says the state's child welfare agency went too far when it took custody of a woman's five children when she had trouble making ends meet during one child's medical crisis.
Indiana schools get options for making up snow days
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana schools won't get a free pass for the mounting number of days lost to weather cancellations this winter.
Consumers asked to weigh in on proposed water rate hike
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A state agency is inviting consumers to voice their opinions on a rate increase requested by the Indiana American Water Company.
37 flu-related deaths in Indiana
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Text of Gov. Pence's 2nd State of the State speech
INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 14) — Speaker Bosma, President Pro Tem Long, Lt. Governor Ellspermann, Senator Lanane, Representative Pelath, distinguished members of the General Assembly and Judiciary, honored guests, my fellow Hoosiers.
Thank you for that warm welcome. After last week, warm is my favorite word! I want to thank all of you in this room and your families for your service to the people of Indiana in this historic place.
Pence looks to sell lawmakers on 2014 agenda
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Indiana senator retiring after cancer diagnosis
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State health officials announce 3 influenza deaths
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Do you have any recommendations for a weekend trip from Istanbul? We need nature, preferably sea/lake/rivers :) and that it is not too cold (no mountains) since we dont have proper winter clothes...also, we are hitchhiking :) and for accomodation we hope to find a couchsurfer, if not, we will just find our way to sleep somewhere warm :D any suggestions? thank you
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By Virginia Harrison and V. Phani Kumar, MarketWatch
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Most Asian markets ended February with solid monthly gains Wednesday as a recent pullback in oil prices and overnight gains on Wall Street underpinned sentiment, although Japanese and Hong Kong stocks pared their early advances.
South Korea's Kospi /quotes/zigman/1652118/realtime KR:SEU -0.25% climbed 1.3% to 2,030.25, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index /quotes/zigman/1653884/realtime AU:XJO +0.63% gained 0.8% to 4,298.50, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index /quotes/zigman/2622475/realtime HK:HSI +0.28% added 0.5% at 21,680.08 and Japan's Nikkei Stock Average /quotes/zigman/5986735/realtime JP:NIK -0.03% finished marginally higher at 9,723.24.
China's Shanghai Composite /quotes/zigman/1858913/realtime CN:000001 -1.02% bucked the regional trend, snapping a long winning-streak to end 1% lower at 2,428.49.
Hang Seng Index off to roaring start
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is one of Asia's best-performing stock indexes this year. This could signal renewed confidence in China's economy.
The performance brought a rewarding month to a close for regional stock markets. Japan's Nikkei ended February with a 10.5% gain, while benchmarks in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Sydney finished the month higher by 6.3%, 5.9%, 3.8% and 0.8%, respectively.
"A lot of investors are positive in looking for correction, and they are poised to take advantage of good data releases, which is what we had in the U.S. overnight," said Naomi Fink, strategist at Jefferies Japan.
Among the day's major movers in Tokyo, shares of Elpida Memory Inc. collapsed 97.2% to ¥7 (9 U.S. cents), a drop of ¥247 from the previous close.
Deutsche Bank cut its price target on Elpida to zero, saying there was "slim likelihood that shareholders can recover any funds."
Among other semiconductor firms, Renesas Electronics Corp. /quotes/zigman/326601/realtime JP:6723 +0.62% /quotes/zigman/593649/delayed/quotes/nls/rnecy RNECY +2.59% extended losses with a 4.6% fall.
Still, better-than-expected industrial-output data supported the broader market in Tokyo. Read more on Japan's industrial output.
"Production forecasts were especially strong for sectors like IT and communications and electrical machinery, as well as iron and steel. It does look like a cyclical recovery is underway," Jefferies Japan's Fink said.
Panasonic Corp. /quotes/zigman/194943/realtime JP:6752 +0.90% rose 1.5% after announcing a new president in an effort to return to profitability. Read more on Panasonic management changes.
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Investors have worried that recent sharp gains in energy costs could frustrate the global economy recovery.
But Daniel Martin, an economist at Capital Economics, said that while Asian economies "are relatively oil-dependent, their stronger fundamentals mean they can withstand high prices better than more fragile economies elsewhere."
In Seoul, gains across the key shipbuilding sector lent broad support to the market, as Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. jumped 5.1%, and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. added 2.3%.
A decline in crude-oil prices during New York trading helped airline shares extend gains from the previous session in Hong Kong.
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posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 8:59 am
If I want to know the covariance among endogenous factors f2 f3 f4, I use program like this:
model: f1 by sbv26t1 sbv27t1 sbv29t1 ;
f2 by magsabt2 magvvbt2 magsvbt2 ;
f3 by mpmpcot2 mpmptrt2 mpmpint2 ;
f4 by mpbdevt2 height2 ;
f5 by sbv26t3 sbv27t3 sbv29t3 ;
f4 f3 f2 on f1 ;
f5 on f2 f3 f4 f1;
f3 with f4;
f2 with f3;
f2 with f4;
what problems will occur at interpretation of the covariance?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 9:40 am
The covariances among endogenous factors are residual covariances. If you ask for TECH4 in the OUTPUT command, you will obtain covariances and correlations for the latent variables in the model.
posted on Friday, January 14, 2005 - 8:13 am
Hello Linda,
I am running a path analysis with categorical and continuous mediating variables and a continuous final outcome. My question is about the use of with statement regarding one independent and one dependent variable. For example, if I have x1(dependent- predicted by other variable i.e not x2 ) and x2 (independent)
X1 with x2 - can this be estimated in mplus and does it make sense to estimate this correlation? It was suggested by modification indices in mplus
Thanks a lot.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 14, 2005 - 8:24 pm
I cannot understand your model from what you say. If x1 is regressed on x2 then x1 WITH x2 is not identified if this is what you are asking.
posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 2:12 pm
Hi Linda,
Thanks for the reply.
Let me put my question as mplus program.
X1 on x2 x3 x4;
X5 on x3 x4;
Y on x5 x6;
X6 with x5;
Here is an independent variable x6 correlating with a dependent variable x5(its error). Once I correlate x6 with x5 the mdoel improves much and the path from x6 to y is no more significant. How do we interpret this? is it common in SEM?
posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 3:44 pm
Without your WITH statement, x5 and x6 are uncorrelated in your model. It may be more natural to regress x5 on x6 than to correlate them. In path analysis as you are doing, if the model improves when you add a path, then this path is needed to reproduce the correlation matrix. I think this is a common phenomena.
posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 1:07 pm
With regard to the previous post: is it possible to correlate just the error and not the observed variable? i know that in AMOS, there is a difference between covarying the error terms of Y1 and Y2 with each other, compared to covarying Y1 and Y2.
posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 1:08 pm
PS Y1 and Y2 are continuous variables in a CFA.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 1:47 pm
If y1 and y1 are factor indicators, then you estimate their residual covariance as part of the model because they are endogenous variables. If they were exoogenous variables, their variance would be estimated.
posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 7:19 am
Ok. How would that be programmed? if a latent var (L) is measured by Y1 and Y2 and is endogenous to some other exogeneous factor (EX),it seems that if we wrote
EX on L;
L by Y1 Y2;
Y1 with Y2;
then we would covary the values of Y1 and Y2 and not just their residuals.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 7:40 am
The meaning of y1 WITH y2 depends on the context in which it is used in a model. In the model you show above, y1 and y2 are endogenous variables, therefore y1 WITH y2 represents a residual covariance. In the following model, y1 WITH y2 represents a covariance:
MODEL: y1 WITH y2;
Alexander Kapeller
posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 9:14 am
i am regressing an observed v. on one latent variable and several manifest variables. as i understand the default is that the correlation among the DV is estimated. but I don't get it in the model output. Only in tech 4. if i specify the correlations via with statements i get an error message about non -positive prod. matr. I am wondering why. thanks
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 6:08 pm
What are your DVs? You mention an observed variable. Is the latent variable that you mention a second DV? It is not clear what your model is. Note that you cannot identify both a residual covariance between two DVs and the regression of one on the other.
Alexander Kapeller
posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 1:25 pm
my dv are some observed and one latent variable
latent_var by x1 x2;
observ_var on observ_var1 observ_var2 latent_var;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 1:40 pm
The covariances between x1, x2, and observ_var are not estimated as the default.
K�tlin Peets
posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 - 6:57 am
I have a question concerning a path model with two dependent variables. I understand that the residuals are allowed to covary (by default), but what does it actually mean? Does it mean that two variables share some common `cause` not explained by the specified predictors.
And, if I want to examine unique associations between the predictors and y1 (controlling for the y2 effect on y1), should I regress y1 on y2 (rather than estimating the covariance among the residuals)?
Thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 - 9:40 am
Yes to your first paragraph.
You can include y2 as a predictor of y1 instead of having the residual covariance between y1 and y2.
Tony Stoneriver
posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 12:21 am
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Muth�n,
I am conducting a SEM-model with 2 independent latent variables (measured by two parcels each) and 4 dependent latent variables (measured by two parcels each).
Since 3 of the dependent variables were measured with the same method (questionnaire), I allow for residual covariance by using the default option and restricting the residual covariance with the fourth dependent variable (lat_DV1 WITH
; lat_DV2 WITH
; lat_DV3 WITH
Now, I'm not sure how to visualize the relations in a SEM-model correctly. Do I have to include correlated residuals between the 6 manifest variables (parcels) or is it sufficient to include solely the correlation between the 3 latent dependent variables (which I get from TECH4)?
Kind regards
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 12:04 pm
I think there are more reasons that the 4 dependent factors have residual covariances than merely that 3 of them share the same method. Any left-out covariates predicting the 4, but left out in the model, would cause residual covariances.
You are right that indicators obtained by the same method may call for residual covariances among them. But this has to be modeled in a careful fashion. See for example the MTMM literature, for example in the CFA book by Tim Brown.
Tony Stoneriver
posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 11:19 pm
Dear Mr. Muth�n,
thanks for your quick reply.
If I include all residual covariances between the 4 latent dependent variables, the model fit worsen (but fit indices indicate still acceptable model fit) and the output shows, that the fourth dependent variable (which is measured with a different method) has no significant residual correlations with the other three latent dependent variables. Thus, in terms of parsimony I might left out the residual covariances with this fourth variable. Is that right?
I already studied the literature on method effects, but for my data none of the modeling techniques seem appropriate (besides, modeling method effects explicitly is not the aim of my article). However, I need an argument why the three latent dependent variables may correlate, since in some articles it is stated, that in "good models there are no correlated errors"). Do you have any advice?
Kind regards
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 9:20 am
People may have different opinions about these matters; here are mine. I don't agree with the quote. I think a natural baseline model is one where residuals for the dependent variable factors do correlate. Why would a priori the independent variables be the only ones causing correlations between the 4 dependent variable factors? That's a very strong statement. Also, I am not a fan of "model trimming" where one deletes insignificant parameters - reporting that they are insignificant seems better to me.
michela addis
posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 6:50 am
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Muth�n,
I am conducting a path analysis (longitudinal data) with only observed variables.
I am wondering about the meaning of the estimate "Y1 WITH Y2" in this case. Does it refer to Y1 and Y2 covariance or to their residual covariance? Is there a way to let the residuals covariate without freeing the covariance of the 2 variables?
Thank you so much.
Best Regards,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 9:42 am
With endogenous variables WITH is a residual covariance. With exogenous variables, it is a covariance.
michela addis
posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 3:49 am
Thank you very much for your quick and helpful reply.
posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 11:38 pm
Dear Mr. Muth�n,
From the preceding discussion i understand that, in the following model p represents a residual covariance between f1 and f2
f1 by y1 y2 y3;
f2 by y4 y5 y6;
f1 with f2 (p);
It however remains unclear to me how one labels a residual variance?
as f1 with f1 (q) generates an error message
and f1(q) would represent the factor variance?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 6:02 am
p is a covariance. q is a variance.
posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 7:44 am
As f1 and f2 are two endogenous variables, q is not a covariance but a residual covariance, no?
If so, how do i label the residual variance?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 10:47 am
In a factor model, the factors are covariates. The factor indicators are regressed on the factors. Unless, there are other covariates in the model, q is a covariance.
posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 12:05 am
Actually, i want to specify some
error covariance restrictions on the structural part of a sem model. In order to do so i need to label the residual variances and covariances.
So in the following model p does represent a residual covariance between f1 and f2
f1 by y1 y2 y3;
f2 by y4 y5 y6;
f2 on f1;
f1 with f2 (p);
If in the above model p represents a residual covariance, how do i label the residual variance?
i tried f1 with f1 (q) but this generates an error message.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 8:10 am
F1 WITH f2 is not a residual covariance. It would not be identified as stated. Following is an example of a model with two residual variances and one residual covariance:
f1 by y1 y2 y3;
f2 by y4 y5 y6;
f1 f2 ON x;
f1 WITH f2 (a);
f1 (b);
f2 (c);
Andres Fandino-Losada
posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 2:03 am
Dear Dr. Linda Muthen.
About your example above:
1. How can I interpret the magnitude of the residual covariance (parameter "a") in both estimated and standardized units?
2. How can I relate "a" with the total covariance between the 2 variables?
3. Is it easier to explain "a" in terms of correlation between f1 and f2?
4. Can I call the latter, the residual correlation between f1 and f2 (which is not explained by "x")?
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 24, 2012 - 8:15 am
1 and 3. You can look at the significance of the raw coefficient and at the standardized coefficient which is a correlation.
2. Look at the ratio of the residual covariance to the covariance.
4. Yes.
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